A Short Stay in Hell
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Read between August 19 - August 20, 2025
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I took my first cup ever on this morning. Being a Mormon, I had never even tasted coffee, let alone drunk a whole cupful. How could that matter now?
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Was there no diversity in Hell? What did this endless repetition of sameness and of uniformity in people and surroundings mean?
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One man, a newcomer I did not recognize, said, “There’s only one thing that explains it – the rest of you aren’t real – mere creations like the books. My soul is probably in a vat somewhere being pumped full of sensations. You, you, and you,” he said, pointing at three of us, “are nothing more than input signals to a single consciousness swimming in a God-created void.”
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No meaning – that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.
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We’re all white, equal ciphers, instances of the same absurdity repeated over and over.
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Finite does not mean much if you can’t tell any practical difference between it and infinite.